The Life of the Butterfly 1911 · 9 min · ★ 6.4 · Documentary Directed by Roberto Omegna ►︎ Trailer + My List Mark as watched ↗ Share Your Rating ★★★★★ Make it a double feature 1h 28m together The Life of the Butterfly + Nanook of the North A close match in mood and era. More from Roberto OmegnaSee all →‹Gloria · 1934Gloria★ 9.01934MovieDocumentary▶+Champagne caprice · 1919Champagne caprice★ 5.01919MovieComedyMaude, engaged to a doctor, was adopted years earlier by the president of an anti-alcoholic league. A Gypsy violinist falls in love with her, who, after having kidnapped and immobilized the girl's boyfriend, takes her to a villa and, to try to make her give in to his coaxing, has some gypsies offer her champagne.▶+The Last Days of Pompeii · 1908The Last Days of Pompeii★ 4.91908MovieDramaHistoryPompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer Jone. Glaucus purchases Nydia, the blind and long-suffering slave. Nydia falls in love with Glaucus and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with her-- In fact, a poison which will cause violent insanity.▶+Vita della piantaVita della piantaMovieDocumentary▶+›More Like This‹Nanook of the North · 1922Nanook of the North★ 7.11922MovieDocumentaryDramaThis pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.▶+Berlin: Symphony of a Great City · 1927Berlin: Symphony of a Great City★ 7.51927MovieDocumentaryA day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.▶+Man with a Movie Camera · 1929Man with a Movie Camera★ 7.81929MovieDocumentaryA cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.▶+›
